Definition of "weevil" []

• Any of numerous beetles, of the superfamily Curculionoidea, especially the snout beetle, that characteristically have a downward-curving snout and are destructive to nuts, fruits, stems, and roots. (noun)

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• "For our seed peas in southern Ontario we have to go north, because the weevil is frightened at the word "north.""
• "A beetle called a weevil is the creature which puts the fat worms there."
• "The following morning, Ranger Jay Snow toured us through the vast and strangely soothing Mesquite Flat Dunes where parts of the "Star Wars" movies were filmed, showing us a small bug called a weevil that leaves a delicate trail across the 100-foot-deep sands."
• "For our seed peas in southern Ontario we have to go north, because the weevil is frightened at the word "north.""
• "The following morning, Ranger Jay Snow toured us through the vast and strangely soothing Mesquite Flat Dunes where parts of the "Star Wars" movies were filmed, showing us a small bug called a weevil that leaves a delicate trail across the 100-foot-deep sands."
• "In my state, the weevil is the scourge of chestnuts; I had hoped that after the chestnut blight destroyed our native chestnuts, the Chinese and Japanese chestnuts would be free from that pest."
• "Kirby and Spence mention the small beetle Onthophilus sulcatus as being like the seed of an umbelliferous plant; and another small weevil, which is much persecuted by predatory beetles of the genus"